Reading Time: < 1 minute Reuters — Chicago soybeans and corn eased on Wednesday, consolidating after two days of gains, as traders watch U.S. weather and planting, while wheat traded mixed pending further sanctions against Russia following reports of civilian deaths in Ukraine. The most-active soybeans on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) eased 11-1/2 cents to $16.19-1/2 a bushel […] Read more
U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans, corn consolidate
CBOT wheat mixed pending sanctions
260,000 canola seeds per acre, placed precisely
With the precision placement of a planter, Edmund Rath achieves 88 to 93 per cent canola seed emergence, a big improvement from the typical 50 to 60 per cent with his air seeder
Reading Time: 5 minutes When asked for his canola seeding rate, Edmund Rath answers “260,000 seeds per acre.” This is not the usual answer. Five pounds per acre, give or take a pound, is the common response. “After May 15, I cut that down to 240,000,” he adds. Here’s a quick translation: With 43,560 square feet in an acre, […] Read more
U.S. grains: Chicago wheat firmer on U.S. crop conditions’ decline
CBOT corn, soybeans also gain
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — Chicago wheat climbed on Tuesday as worse-than-expected U.S. crop conditions added to global supply concerns already heightened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Corn and soybeans were also higher, bolstered as U.S. growers weigh last-minute planting decisions. The most active wheat contract on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) ended 35 cents […] Read more
Pulse weekly outlook: Saskatchewan growers wait for rain
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — As the snow melts on the Prairies, pulse growers are making their final preparations before seeding, while at the same time hoping not to see a repeat of last year’s historic drought. In Saskatchewan, snow cover has varied in pulse-growing areas, making some growers nervous. “There’s still a lot of concern about dryness […] Read more
Australian canola production heading downward, but still sizeable
New second-biggest harvest expected, USDA predicts
Reading Time: 2 minutes MarketsFarm — Despite canola production in Australia being set to drop 26 per cent in 2022-23, the country’s farmers are still projected to harvest the second largest crop, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s attaché in Canberra. In the attaché’s report, released Monday, canola production for the coming crop year was projected to be […] Read more
U.S. grains: Ukrainian export woes support markets
U.S. winter wheat 30 per cent good-excellent
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chicago | Reuters — U.S. wheat, soybean and corn climbed on Monday, underpinned by disrupted supplies of Black Sea grains as the conflict in Ukraine continues, while attention shifts to U.S. production. Chicago Board of Trade most-active wheat ended 25-3/4 cents higher at $10.10-1/4 a bushel (all figures US$). Soybeans added 19-1/2 cents to $16.02-1/4 […] Read more
Farming behind the lines: Hostages of globalization
Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine — even if it looks unrealistic — that one day Canada will be cut off from the rest of the world. And all import deliveries to the country will be possible, for example, only through Alaska, only by trains along one route. It sounds absurd, but Ukraine, in the very heart of Europe, is […] Read more
Ukraine sunseed area seen falling due to war
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lviv | Reuters — The area sown to sunflower in Ukraine is likely to fall to 4.81 million hectares (11.89 million acres) in 2022 from 6.66 million hectares in 2021 due to hostilities in many regions, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. Ukraine is the world’s largest sunflower seed grower and sunflower oil exporter. The […] Read more
Farming behind the lines in Ukraine
A Ukrainian agriculture journalist chronicles the challenges of sowing a crop during wartime
Reading Time: 5 minutes Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian invaders as strategic, a column set out on Monday. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of Ukraine. In it were farmers […] Read more
Ukraine to start spring seeding in coming days, officials say
Reading Time: < 1 minute Lviv | Reuters — Ukraine plans to start sowing spring grains in the coming days and has enough grain in stocks to ensure the population has enough bread, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy said Saturday. He said the country, which consumes eight million tonnes of wheat a year, had six million tonnes in stocks. Stocks […] Read more
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